Training Seminar on the Identification, Seizure and Confiscation of Criminal Assets Arising from Different Forms of Human Trafficking – A Practical Perspective” (Prague, 18-20 July); and the round table “Human Rights Education for Law Enforcement Officials in the OSCE Area: Existing Good Practice and Remaining Challenges” (Istanbul, 10-11 December). Domestic Violence In 2012 the PCU continued to provide expert support in amending national anti-domestic violence legislation and facilitated interagency expert group meetings on this issue. The members of the working group representing the Ministries of Interior, Justice, and Social Policy as well as the PCU formulated amendments to the Law on Prevention of Domestic Violence and the Code of Administrative Offenses of Ukraine focusing on judicial measures for protecting victims of domestic violence and punishing the perpetrators. In April, the PCU, at the request of the MoI, conducted a two-day round table on law enforcement efforts in combating gender-based violence. More than 40 participants at the round table, including heads of the Precinct Police Inspectors Service Departments from all regions of the country as well as representatives of the MoI, Ministry for Social Policy, and police educational institutions discussed recent developments and practical challenges in tackling gender-based violence, especially related to the advancement of legislation and interagency co-operation and co-ordination in the field. During May-July, the PCU, in co-operation with the MoI and the Ministry for Social Policy, facilitated an awareness-raising campaign on gender equality and the prevention of genderbased violence in public transport in four Ukrainian cities that hosted the EURO-2012 football tournament: Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv and Lviv. Following the PCU’s and MoI’s mutual efforts in developing, piloting and finalizing the specialized anti-domestic violence police training course in April, the MoI approved the course for further use within the police educational system. The PCU facilitated the publication and distribution of 800 copies of the course in higher educational institutions of the MoI. In September, these institutions started to teach the course for cadets (future precinct police officers) as well as to conduct similar in-service re-training sessions targeting precinct police inspectors from all regions of Ukraine. In addition, at the request of the MoI, the PCU, in November-December, supported a number of field visits of representatives from the Public Security and Personnel Departments of the MoI as well as the PCU to analyse the implementation of the specialized training course and the use of the interactive training rooms established with the PCU support in 2009-2011. Cybercrime In October, the PCU, upon request from the MoI and based on the findings and recommendations from an assessment of the needs for the provision of training and specialized equipment to the Department for Combating Cybercrimes, provided 22 sets of ICT equipment for the Department staff as well as presentation and network equipment for setting up a cybercrime investigation training room. Responding to the identified training needs, the PCU facilitated the development of a basic level on-line training course on cybercrime investigation which was followed in November by a two-week training of trainers’ session for 20 police officers from the specialized anti-cybercrime police units. The PCU also supported the participation of representatives from the MoI in a number of OSCE events, namely the Annual Police Experts Meeting held by the TNTD/SPMU in October in Vienna, as well as the supplementary anti-cybercrime police meetings held by the TNTD/ATU in October and November. 107